Winklevoss Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

New York, United States

Total investments

154

Average round size

19M

Portfolio companies

118

Rounds per year

12.83

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.23

Exits

23

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyMobileAppsBitcoinCryptocurrency

Summary

The main department of described VC is located in the New York. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Winklevoss capital, startups are often financed by Slow Ventures, Naval Ravikant, 500 Startups. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Y Combinator, SV Angel, FundersClub. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Founders Fund, FJ Labs, Accomplice.

The current fund was established by Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss. Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are SaaS, Retail. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Flexport, Cabify, Filecoin.

The high activity for fund was in 2014. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 18 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. This Winklevoss capital works on 13 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
AI/Big DataB2B/EnterpriseBiotech/Life SciencesConsumer/RetailBlockchain/Crypto/Web3 Show 4 more
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
154
Lead investments
4
Exits
23
Rounds per year
12.83
Follow on index
0.23
Investments by industry
  • E-Commerce (23)
  • Mobile (22)
  • Information Technology (17)
  • Software (17)
  • Cryptocurrency (16)
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Investments by region
  • United States (134)
  • China (3)
  • Japan (3)
  • Singapore (2)
  • United Kingdom (3)
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Peak activity year
2014
Number of Unicorns
8
Number of Decacorns
8
Number of Minotaurs
3

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
246M
Group Appearance index
0.81
Avg. company exit year
5
Avg. multiplicator
1.12
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Betterview 05 Sep 2017 Analytics, Computer Vision, Insurance Seed 2M United States, California, San Francisco
Dandi Fertility 08 May 2024 Seed 1M
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